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Concordia is a Roman-themed game by Mac Gerdts, known for his rondel game mechanic games such as Navegador and Imperium. However, Concordia doesn’t use the rondel mechanic (Gerdts has made a non-rondel game before too); instead, it uses cards for both actions and scoring.

The main board shows Europe (3-5 players) or Italy (2-4 players) which is divided into provinces and each province contains several cities. The type of good that each city produces (bricks, food, tools, wine, cloth) is determined at the start of the game which adds some variety in replay.

Players have land and sea colonists which they can move around the board via the land or sea routes that connect the cities. Players take turns playing one of their cards from their hand and carrying out the specific action on it.

Architect: Move colonists then spend resources and cash to build houses at cities at end of any route their colonists occupy

Prefect: Generate resources in a region or cash

Colonist: Generate cash, or spend resources to place new colonists

Mercator: Receive cash and then buy/sell 2 types of goods

Senator: Spend resources to purchase up to 2 of the 7 cards on display

Consul: Spend resources to purchase 1 of the 7 cards on display (usually cheaper than using a Senator)

Specialists: Generate one type of resource

Diplomat: Do the action that is another player’s most recently played card

Tribune: All played cards return to your hand (gain 1 cash for each card minus 3) and can spend resources to place 1 new colonist.

In Navegador, players are Portuguese explorers discovering new lands and making money from trading or processing the resources from the new colonies.

The core game mechanic is the rondel – if you’ve played any of Mac Gerdts’ other rondel games (Antike, Imperial, Hamburgum) then you’ll know the deal. If you’ve yet to play a rondel game, the rondel is a circle split into 8 sections. On their turn, a player moves their piece 1 to 3 spaces clockwise around the rondel. The space that they land on determines what action they can perform that turn. A player can move more than 3 spaces but, in Navegador, each extra space costs 1 ship (which isn’t cheap but can be invaluable). Read the rest of this entry »